Local entrepreneur wants to grow business, tackle issues

The spirit of entrepreneurship is growing, especially as people’s lives have changed, and some new life paths are out to solve old problems.

The name of the game is gut health when it comes to Shayla Ashley Graham, whose business has roots all the way back to her elementary school lunches.

“I’ve always loved food. I’m kind of a foodie myself,” Graham said as she recounted a classmate gnawing on fresh peppers at a young age. “She really enjoyed her veggies. So from that point, I just began to develop this gut instinct to want to eat more nutritional foods and to try new different cultural dishes.”

A long and winding road took Graham in and out of a path to becoming a lawyer. It also found her on the west coast, where health and life coaching became a real possibility.

“So we hear this term ‘holistic’ a lot. And when you think about the gut, it affects so many areas of the body,” she said.

That’s when Graham became a mother. She and her…

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